Clamp for railroad-rails



(No Model.) I

' 1). B. RUFPNER.

CLAMP FDR RAILROAD RAILS.

No. 517,665. I Patented Apr. 3, 1894.

' WITNESSES: 7 J/NVENTOB H UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL B. RUFFNER, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLAM P FOR RAlLROAD-RAI LS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,665, dated April 3, 1894.

' Application filed October 22,1892. Serial No. 449,587. (No model.)

To. all whom may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL B. RUFFNER,

a citizen of the United States, residing inthe will be hereinafter set forth.

city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have, invented a new and useful Improvement in Clamps for Railroad-Rails, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists ofimprovements in clamps for guard or other railroad rails, as

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a rail guard embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents atransverse section thereof. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of a detached portion thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawingsi=-A designates two hollowcheek pieces orclamps, whose inner sides conform to the shape of the upper faces of the flanges, and the sides of the webs and'heads of the rails B and C, so as to embrace the same.

D designates the bases of said cheek pieces which project inwardly from the lower ends of said pieces, and are adapted to have the Interposed be-\ I heads of the rails B and V C, said filling piece having a depending stem F which occupies a position between the inner ends of the flanges, and has ah opening Gor slot H thereit being noticed that said bolt passes horizonin for the passage therethrough of the bolt J,

tally through the bases D, and isprovided with a nut K, whereby when said nut is tightened, it is evident that the cheek pieces and filling piece are firmly clamped against the rails, and said rails firmly connected and a main and a guard rail afilling piece in contact with the head, web and flanges of the rails and having a depending flange, and a bolt passing through said check pieces and depending flange, said parts being combined substantially as described.

DANIEL B. RUFFNER.

Witnesses I J OHNA. WIEDERSHEIM,

R. H. GRAESER. 

